To me even since Happily Ever After she’s been really really let down by Asuelu and his family are willing to have them live in poverty because of their own expectations.
Sure there are cultural expectations and things, but surely if you know your grandchildren would suffer because of the amount of money you’re asking for you’d either dial it back or not ask at all.
Sure Kalani teams up with her sister but I think it’s because she feels utterly unheard in her relationship. Can you blame her? Asuelu and her don’t have the same love language at all and they have a huge barrier in terms of language and culture.
Just my thoughts.
Her family was trashing Ausuelo before they even married. After they married, Kalani and her family continued to bad mouth him. Every problem in the relationship was his fault. While still married, Kalani and her sister gossiped about how he was lousy in bed. He never stood a chance. She even denied him interaction with new friends he made at volleyball. Ausuelu was set up to fail because he was never viewed as good enough.